MaltaMedia.com

Posted on February 11th, 2009

The underground extension of the St John’s Co-Cathedral Museum was dropped on Wednesday afternoon following the Prime Minister and Archbishop’s recommendation to the Museum Foundation to reconsider the proposal.

In a meeting held between the Prime Minister and the Archbishop, they agreed that the project should not divide the nation.

In the same meeting the Archbishop showed reservations over the project.

On Wednesday evening, a parliamentary debate was going to be held over the project where the Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar was going to hand in an open letter to the parliamentarians.

The FAA had earlier on called for the immediate resignation of the members of the St. John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation after research it conducted revealed that the Foundation’s plans to develop an underground museum got underway before 2006.

The FAA said that ‘the Foundation is determined to waste €150,000 on an EIA in an attempt to press ahead with its project, irrespective of geology expert statements that geological studies in a built-up area are not conclusive due to rock fissures remaining concealed and subsequently subsiding once excavations begin, resulting in cracks to the walls of St. John’s and damage to the artistic marble paving.’

See: FAA calls for resignation of members of St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation